Where to "dump" when not at campgrounds?

Davydd, you can probably get a 6" piece of 1/2 or 3/4" clear flex hose, and add some garden hose fittings on the ends, then screw one end onto the macerator outlet, and the other onto the dump hose. That way you can see as soon as the water stops coming out of the pump. They can overheat fast, and I don't like relying on the fuse.

Yeah, I see now. I just remembered that clear coupling. Same principle in being able to add onto a standard 3" slinky hose gravity dump opening to move sewage. I watched the Sewer Solution in action and it worked fine. I was a bit skeptical about it before.

We are getting a macerator on our Advanced RV that is external to the 3" gravity dump opening so if there is a failure of any kind we will still have a fall back solution. I believe Great West Vans does it that way now as well. Our Great West Van Legend just has gravity.

Davydd, that's a sewer solution. Different than a macerator.
"High velocity water jet pulls sewage from the RV sewer pipe and ejects it out the discharge hose. Liquefies waste and tissue. Pumps up to 8 gallons per minute. No installation necessary. Just twist onto your RV sewer pipe in place of the cap. Requires min. 15 psi water pressure through standard garden hose. Includes fiberglass-reinforced ABS pump unit, 10' dump hose, garden hose quick connect with backflow preventer and adapter for connection to 3" and 4" dia. sewer pipes or 1" PVC pipe. Universal design fits vertical or horizontal sewer outlets."

Don't know if will pump uphill, but they get good reviews for short runs.

Davydd wrote:

Arizona Kid wrote:
The portable Flojet Macerator comes in it's own box, with cabled alligator clips to attach to the chassis battery. It has it's own fuse wired into the on/off switch.
Using a 3/4" garden hose, it will pump 50' or more, to a sewer clean-out, depending on the upslope.
I have used mine for years pumping up about a 3' grade. Easy to keep clean by just flushing with the grey water.
I did have to add about 10 more feet onto the alligator cables.
One more thing, you need to attach a clear piece of pipe between the macerator, and the end where the slinky comes out. This is so you can shut the pump off as soon as the tank is empty. This will prevent running the pump dry, and over heating it, which I believe is the cause of a lot the macerator problems that users are having, both portable, and built in.





No one is running a hose to a toilet through my house either. :E

Here is one in use by a fellow B couple in a Pleasure-way Excel that normally is a 3" slinky gravity dump. The white hoses are water and the green hose is the dump.

You won't find many northern homes with plumbing systems exposed to cold weather inside garages. Not saying you can't but it would be extremely rare. It is not going to happen at my house.

Codes do require a clean out before the waste plumbing goes underground. That is usually in a basement in northern homes and not easily accessible in most cases in my home design experience.

Sprink-Fitter wrote:
I don't no what integral means, but no where that normally gets snow would have plumbing pipes in a outside u insulated wall.

Sewers are not the same issue as water feed pipes. It is done all the time.

"Integral" in this context means that there is living space above the garage.

avanti wrote:
Many integral garages have exposed sewer pipes going down the wall. They usually have clean outs near the floor that can be opened and used as a dump point.

I don't no what integral means, but no where that normally gets snow would have plumbing pipes in a outside u insulated wall.

Arizona Kid wrote:
The portable Flojet Macerator comes in it's own box, with cabled alligator clips to attach to the chassis battery. It has it's own fuse wired into the on/off switch.
Using a 3/4" garden hose, it will pump 50' or more, to a sewer clean-out, depending on the upslope.
I have used mine for years pumping up about a 3' grade. Easy to keep clean by just flushing with the grey water.
I did have to add about 10 more feet onto the alligator cables.
One more thing, you need to attach a clear piece of pipe between the macerator, and the end where the slinky comes out. This is so you can shut the pump off as soon as the tank is empty. This will prevent running the pump dry, and over heating it, which I believe is the cause of a lot the macerator problems that users are having, both portable, and built in.





No one is running a hose to a toilet through my house either. :E

Here is one in use by a fellow B couple in a Pleasure-way Excel that normally is a 3" slinky gravity dump. The white hoses are water and the green hose is the dump.

Many integral garages have exposed sewer pipes going down the wall. They usually have clean outs near the floor that can be opened and used as a dump point.

obgraham wrote:
Just go to a neighboring campground, pay them the $5 or whatever, and be done with it.

This was my solution as we have a county park campground not too far away. However, coming home late fall last year I found the campground closed for the winter and a padlock on the lift lid. :( You do have to plan ahead. I usually dump my last night in a campground before driving home and then not use the RV facilities. If traveling and planning to stay with a friend or relative, we do the same.

with a macerator the "sewer hose" is not a stinky slinky, it is just a garden hose. some houses have 1/2 baths adjacent to garage, etc. and you wouldn't need to wind 200 ft of hose thru the living room, dining room, master bedroom, etc to empty the tank.
lots of folks here have reported that that is what they use at their homes to empty the tanks after a trip.
bumpy